Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances